Listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQfwPziK-SA
UK singer-songwriter and musical oddball Dean Blunt releases an album that’s difficult to put into words. While simple in composition and sloppy in execution, the album still manages to draw up some real feelings of isolation, melancholy, and frustration.
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FAV TRACKS: LUSH, 50 CENT, BLOW, 100, MOLLY & AQUAFINA, PUNK, GRADE, X
LEAST FAV TRACK: HEAVY
DEAN BLUNT – BLACK METAL / 2014 / ROUGH TRADE / ART POP, SINGER-SONGWRITER, NEO-PSYCHEDELIA, “HYPNAGOGIC POP”
8/10 http://www.theneedledrop.com/loved-list/2014
Y’all know this is just my opinion, right? What did you think of this album? Love it? Hate it? Why? What should I review next, eh?
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Dereck Higgins – Murphy, please
you are the mustard tiger!
I love this album !!
this record is probably in my top 10 this year. so good
A really great album this! Good review too
Where do I find/buy this? Other than iTunes.
RAISINTHONY BRANTANO LMAO
Dean Blunt was kind of culturally appropriating white music and its awesome what sounds and songs came as a result. Someone mentioned Death in June, and I’ll also add to having a Durutti Column sound at times. Brilliant record and it felt like an album and aesthetic like this will not be fully appreciated, but one day I hope. Its been nearly three years and its still too mysterious, but we have had an album such as Danny Brown’s Atrocity Exhibition which thematically and introspectively takes some themes from Joy Division.
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sondre lerche please?
tiene tetas ?
50 CENT was hard as fuck
I absolutely love this new album by Inga and Dean. It totally caught me off guard. The vocal melodies and guitar phrasing were quite pleasing. The lyrics lacked direction for my personal taste, but I think there was too much going on for a story to be told anyway. This will definitely be added to my 2014 fav list.
You should definitely review the self titled album by Clark and The Inevitable End by Röyksopp
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i love the cover
dean blunt sounds like a drunk chris martin
promising instrumentals, but boy do the vocals suck ass
the comparisons to r stevie moore and etc really add a nice context to understanding Dean Blunt. In a sense, he’s a digital and more contemporary version of these kinds of dudes. Cool.
i think the black cover art fits this album perfectly. i guess im imagining all of the songs being performed in pitch black darkness, and it’s cool.
another huge influence on Dean is outsider R n B and wavy gospel like Otis G. Johnson and Jeff Phelps. Check that stuff out if you’re into weird proto-electro
Didn’t listen to this right away after I watched it, but last week they were playing this album over the speakers in my local record store and I was instantly drawn in.
From what you described in this review this album is really fascinating, will give a listen today – cheers anthony.
This seems like amateurish hipster shit to me.
to me, after hearing british electronic music for close to two decade. a dean blunt sounds like vacuous mediocrity. sound of hype.
why is it called black metal makes not fuckin sence
Dean Blunt has been quoted directly as stating that he despises hip hop.
i miss when you reviewed more underground stuff
You should do a review of Rome Fortune’s Small VVorld. It’s really one of Hip Hop’s dopest mixtapes imo. Mixing the old with the new.
REVIEW BABYFATHER
this record holds so much
Great review! I never considered a comparison to Silver Jews or Smog but it makes a lot of sense in terms of approach. Its so easy to get caught up in the crossed cultural references of Dean Blunt’s work that sometimes you miss what it is in essence. Maybe my favourite album of 2014! Cheers, a new subscriber.
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Everybody is bitching on blunts vocals, while ik the mean time, they’re euphoric about the new iceage record. I guess being consistent isn’t cool anymore.
GET IT OVER WITH
TALK ABOUT SHLOHMO ALREADY
Exactly the same cover as Lupe Fiasco’s F&L2.
Sorne- House of Stone Volume 1 & 2
Hikes- Friends
omfg laughed my fucking ass off at that unexpected cough edit at 7:22
Love this album.
Can you review the new Clark album please?
nausea
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The Redeemer was great, looking forward to this one.
Hi Anthony! You should review the debut album from Pat Mahoney of LCD Soundsystem’s project, Museum of Love. Actually quite good in my opinion, even if you all the LCD hype away!
What is it with the UK and guys named Blunt? Unfortunate for him to evoke that association.
Has anyone else gotten a feeling that some of the songs on Black Metal and The Redeemer has a drug dealer or other shady narrative.
Lush is him being seen by someone he knows and telling them to keep quiet. (Because I know you/Be Blind I told you/ Stay out of it)
50 Cent being known by the police in some capacity (5-0 coming and they know my name)
Heavy being questioned possibly by the police about the disappearance of someone Dean used to know (Ihavent seen that girl/Guess I never knew that girl)
Demon from the Redeemer sounds like he’s caught up on a plan by other dealers to double cross him (I suppose I wasnt meant to know/guns in there change in there/*glass breaking* what you did was wrong
Just wondering if anyone else has gotten similar vibes. I really love Dean Blunt’s whole persona and this adds to it IMO
Joe budden some love lost. Get on it. Its deep